Comparison of two U.S. Environmental Protection Agency species sensitivity distribution methods for calculating ecological risk criteria From: Human and Ecological Risk Assessment | Date: April 1, 2003| Author: Burton, Dennis T; Fisher, Daniel J | Copyright CRC Press Apr 2003. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

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Two major methods used by the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) to calculate ecological risk criteria using "species sensitivity distributions" (SSD) are compared using identical datasets. One method is the current USEPA Office of Water method for deriving acute numeric water duality criteria (EPA-FAV method). The 95% protection level generated by this method is the Final Acute Value (FAV). The other method is the USEPA Office of Pesticide Programs log normal dist...

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